Qualla: Lennox Head https://qualla.com/lennox-head en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Lennox Head https://qualla.com/lennox-head Lennox Head: Introduction https://qualla.com/lennox-head/ When the swell lines up at Lennox Point, the wave can carry a surfer for the better part of half a kilometre, peeling off the headland in a long, fast right-hand wall that breaks down the point like something poured rather than crashed. Surfers first found it in the 1950s, and the rumour got out fast. Today the take-off zone fills with a quiet, patient crowd, everyone waiting their turn for one of the longest rides in Australia. But Lennox Head is not only its wave. It is a small village strung between Ballina and Byron Bay, with a freshwater lake the colour of weak tea, a sacred ground older than any of it, and the unhurried air of a place that has decided not to be Byron.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/h/lennox-head-wk/r6vh-lennox-head-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lennox Head: The Point https://qualla.com/lennox-head/ Lennox Point is the reason surfers know this village. The right-hander that wraps the headland is long, powerful, and demanding, a wave that rewards the patience of sitting in the lineup with a ride that just keeps going. In February 2007 the coastline here was declared a Nationa...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/h/lennox-head-wk/r6vh-lennox-head-the-point.mp3 0:06 2 full Lennox Head: The Tea-Coloured Lake https://qualla.com/lennox-head/ On the northern edge of the village sits Lake Ainsworth, and the first thing you notice is its colour. The water is stained a deep tannin brown, the result of oils and tannins leaching from the tea trees that ring the shore. It looks unsettling and is in fact prized, the tea-tree...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/h/lennox-head-wk/r6vh-lennox-head-the-tea-coloured-lake.mp3 0:06 3 full Lennox Head: Country Older Than the Village https://qualla.com/lennox-head/ Lennox Head sits on Bundjalung country, and one of the clearest signs of that long custodianship stands among the houses on the western edge of town. The Lennox Head Bora Ring is a raised ring of sand, only twenty or thirty centimetres high, easy to miss, set on cleared land near...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/h/lennox-head-wk/r6vh-lennox-head-country-older-than-the-village.mp3 0:06 4 full Lennox Head: Heath, Birds and the Village Pace https://qualla.com/lennox-head/ Behind Lake Ainsworth, the Lennox Head heath spreads out, a specialised band of coastal vegetation that comes into its own in spring, when a carpet of wildflowers pulls in birds by the dozen. Brahminy and whistling kites work the air, fairy-wrens flit through the low scrub, honey...

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